Latest developments in the research of non-mass dependent fractionations produced by photochemical reactions

Abstract

The application of isotopic effects in the field of geochemistry has developed decades of fruitful experience where countless atoms, both light and heavy, have been used to trace the geochemical mechanisms operating in space and planetary systems. Among the different types of isotopic mechanisms operating in physical and chemical phenomena, light induced chemistry still lacks a general theory capable to explain isotopic effects that produces mass dependent and non-mass dependent effects.